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Tuxedo (vaudeville)
''Tuxedo'' was a vaudeville show with minstrelsy in which the song "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay" was interpolated. Actor and songwriter Edward Marble wrote and produced ''Tuxedo'' for George Thatcher and his minstrel troupe known as Thatcher's Minstrels. The show debuted in Lincoln, Nebraska, on July 23, 1891. Gänzl, Kurt"Ta-ra-ra-boom-de ... oy? " Kurt Gänzl's blog, 20 August 2018 It then toured, including to Boston, Massachusetts, beginning on August 24, 1891, and the National Theater in Washington, D.C. ''Tuxedo'' arrived in New York at the Park Theatre (at Broadway and 35th Street) on October 5, 1891. The song "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay" was introduced in this show as an interpolated number. Background In describing ''Tuxedo'', ''The New York Times'' wrote: The work, it is said, makes no pretension to anything like a connected plot, but affords opportunity for the introduction of a large number of 'specialties' which are relied on to keep alive the interest of the audience. The actio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaudeville
Vaudeville (; ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment born in France at the end of the 19th century. A vaudeville was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a dramatic composition or light poetry, interspersed with songs or ballets. It became popular in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s, but the idea of vaudeville's theatre changed radically from its French antecedent. In some ways analogous to music hall from Victorian Britain, a typical North American vaudeville performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. Types of acts have included popular and classical musicians, singers, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, ventriloquists, strongmen, female and male impersonators, acrobats, clowns, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minstrel Show
The minstrel show, also called minstrelsy, was an American form of racist theatrical entertainment developed in the early 19th century. Each show consisted of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music performances that depicted people specifically of African descent. The shows were performed by mostly white people wearing blackface make-up for the purpose of playing the role of black people. There were also some African-American performers and black-only minstrel groups that formed and toured. Minstrel shows caricatured black people as dim-witted, lazy, buffoonish, superstitious, and happy-go-lucky.The Coon Character , Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, Ferris State University. Retrieved 29 January 2016.John Kenrick [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay
"Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay" is a vaudeville and music hall song. Its first known public performance was in Henry J. Sayers' 1891 revue ''Tuxedo'' in Boston, Massachusetts. The song became widely known in the version sung by Lottie Collins in London music halls in 1892. The melody was later used in various contexts, including as the theme song to the television show ''Howdy Doody''. Background The song's authorship was disputed for some years."Live Musical Topics", ''The New York Times'', April 3, 1892, p. 12 It was originally credited to Henry J. Sayers, the manager of Rich and Harris, a producer of the George Thatcher Minstrels. Sayers used the song in the troupe's 1891 production ''Tuxedo'', a minstrel farce variety show where "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay" was sung by Mamie Gilroy. Gänzl, Kurt"Ta-ra-ra-boom-de ... oy? " Kurt Gänzl's blog, 20 August 2018 However, Sayers later said that he had not written the song, but heard it performed in the 1880s by a black singer, Mama Lou, in a well-know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Marble
Edward Stevenson Marble (September 3, 1846 – January 3, 1900) was a 19th-century American actor and songwriter.(17 December 1897)Edward Marble - Some Account of a Popular Song-Writer, Actor and Playwright '' Boston Evening Transcript''(21 September 1900)Edward Marble (obituary) ''The Lafayette'', Vol. 27, No. 1, p. 8 Among other works, he wrote '' Tuxedo'' for vaudeville. He was the son of actor and comedian Dan Marble Danforth Marble (April 27, 1810 – May 13, 1849) was an American comedic actor who gained great popularity playing "Yankee" roles in the 1830s and 1840s. Marble was born in East Windsor, Connecticut and made his stage debut in 1831 at Chatham G ..., and Anna Warren; and the father of Anna Marble, who married playwright Channing Pollock.Who's who in Music and Drama p. 212 (1914)
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Lincoln, Nebraska
Lincoln is the capital city of the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County. The city covers with a population of 292,657 in 2021. It is the second-most populous city in Nebraska and the 73rd-largest in the United States. The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area in the southeastern part of the state called the Lincoln Metropolitan and Lincoln- Beatrice Combined Statistical Areas. The statistical area is home to 361,921 people, making it the 104th-largest combined statistical area in the United States. The city was founded in 1856 as the village of Lancaster on the wild salt marshes and arroyos of what was to become Lancaster County. Renamed after President Abraham Lincoln, it became Nebraska's state capital in 1869. The Bertram G. Goodhue–designed state capitol building was completed in 1932, and is the second tallest capitol in the United States. As the city is the seat of government for the state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Gänzl
Kurt-Friedrich Gänzl (born 15 February 1946) is a New Zealand writer, historian and former casting director and singer best known for his books about musical theatre. After a decade-long playwriting, acting and singing career, and a second career as a casting director of West End shows, Gänzl became one of the world's most important chroniclers of musical theatre history."Kurt Gänzl" Theatre Heritage Australia, 2 September 2020 According to Christophe Mirambeau of Canal Académie, "Kurt Gänzl is an institution. No one interested in musicals and operetta can ignore that. He is the world reference – with some few others, like , |
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- most populous city in the country. The city boundaries encompass an area of about and a population of 675,647 as of 2020. It is the seat of Suffolk County (although the county government was disbanded on July 1, 1999). The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest MSA in the country. A broader combined statistical area (CSA), generally corresponding to the commuting area and including Providence, Rhode Island, is home to approximately 8.2 million people, making it the sixth most populous in the United States. Boston is one of the oldest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Washington Star
''The Washington Star'', previously known as the ''Washington Star-News'' and the Washington ''Evening Star'', was a daily afternoon newspaper published in Washington, D.C., between 1852 and 1981. The Sunday edition was known as the ''Sunday Star''. The paper was renamed several times before becoming ''Washington Star'' by the late 1970s. For most of that time, it was the city's newspaper of record A newspaper of record is a major national newspaper with large circulation whose editorial and news-gathering functions are considered authoritative and independent; they are thus "newspapers of record by reputation" and include some of the o ..., and the longtime home to columnist Mary McGrory and cartoonist Clifford K. Berryman. On August 7, 1981, after 128 years, the ''Washington Star'' ceased publication and filed for bankruptcy. In the bankruptcy sale, ''The Washington Post'' purchased the land and buildings owned by the ''Star'', including its printing presses. History '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuxedo, New York
Tuxedo is a town located in Orange County, New York, United States, along the Ramapo River. As of the 2010 census, the town had a total population of 3,624. The town is in the southeastern part of the county in the Ramapo Mountains. New York State Route 17 and the New York State Thruway ( Interstate 87) pass through the town. The name is derived from a Lenape word ''tucseto'', which has several known meanings. History The historic occupants of what is now the town of Tuxedo were the Lenni-Lenape, a branch of the large Algonquian language family of Native Americans, whose different branches lived along the East Coast from Canada through the Upper South. The Lenape named the largest lake in the area ''Tucseto,'' meaning either "place of the bear" or "clear flowing water." European-American colonists later adopted that name for the town they developed. Some Lenape stayed in villages in the Ramapo Mountains, having migrated west from Connecticut. They gradually intermarried with othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mamie Gilroy
Mamie Gilroy (c. 1871 – August 8, 1904) was an American actress and singer in musical theatre. Early life Gilroy was born in New York, the niece of Thomas F. Gilroy, who was mayor of New York in 1893 and 1894. In some sources she is confused with her cousin, the mayor's daughter Mary Agnes Gilroy Mulqueen (1865–1938). Career Gilroy began her career as a small child in stock companies, including those associated with Charles H. Hoyt and Charles Frohman. She had roles in ''Only a Farmer's Daughter'' (1885), ''The Fakir'' (1890), ''Romany Rye'' (1891), ''Tuxedo'' (1891–1892), ''Babes in the Woods'' (1893), ''A Milk White Flag'' (1894), ''Davy Jones'' (1894), ''The China Dog'' (1895), ''Little Miss Busybody'' (1895), ''The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown'' (1896), ''The Merry-Go-Round'' (1896)'','' ''Miss Manhattan'' (1897), '' Trilby'' (1898), ''Mam'selle 'Awkins'' (1900), ''Star and Garter'' (1900), ''El Capitan'' (1901), ''The Giddy Throng'' (1901), ''The Girl from Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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